How To Install tiger-otheros on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tiger-otheros on Debian 9.
What is tiger-otheros
tiger-otheros is:
TIGER, or the ’tiger’ scripts, is a set of Bourne shell scripts, C programs and data files which are used to perform a security audit of different operating systems. The tools can be both run altogether once to generate an audit report of the system and they can also be run periodically to provide information on changes to the system’s security once a security baseline has been defined. Consequently, they can be used also as a host intrusion detection mechanism.
This package provides all the scripts for operating systems other than Linux provided for in the Tiger distribution. It is provided in the hope it will be useful for admins that wish to run tiger in a distributed environment sharing this files through the network (e.g. NFS).
There are three methods to install tiger-otheros on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install tiger-otheros Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install tiger-otheros using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install tiger-otheros
Install tiger-otheros Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install tiger-otheros using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install tiger-otheros
Install tiger-otheros Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install tiger-otheros using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install tiger-otheros
How To Uninstall tiger-otheros on Debian 9
To uninstall only the tiger-otheros package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove tiger-otheros
Uninstall tiger-otheros And Its Dependencies
To uninstall tiger-otheros and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove tiger-otheros
Remove tiger-otheros Configurations and Data
To remove tiger-otheros configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge tiger-otheros
Remove tiger-otheros configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove tiger-otheros configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tiger-otheros
Dependencies
tiger-otheros have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tiger-otheros package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.